Bio: Noel Goddard
Noel is a Principal for the Accelerate NY Seed Fund where she evaluates and performs diligence on applicant companies and their technologies. Prior to her role with Accelerate NY, Noel directed the formulation R&D for Symbiotic Health, a NYC startup company focused on oral drug delivery of cellular and biologic therapeutics for diseases lower GI tract. She also founded a food safety diagnostics company in Calverton, NY, and worked with Sapling Learning, a STEM educational software startup acquired by Macmillan Learning. Noel obtained her PhD from Rockefeller University, performed her post-PhD research at Harvard Medical School as a fellow in the Society of Fellows, and served as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Hunter College, CUNY, before joining the NY entrepreneurial community.
Company: Accelerate NY Seed Fund
Talk Title: “Accelerating funding in NY state.”
Accelerate NY is a commercialization fund partnered with NY state, and invests in early stage technology companies in NYC and the surrounding counties. I will describe the program.